Sylvain Catherine,Max Miller,Natasha Sarin
Sylvain Catherine
More than a quarter of working-age households in the United States do not have sufficient savings to cover their expenditures after a month of unemployment. Recent proposals suggest giving workers early access to a small portion of their fu...
Sheltering in place and domestic violence: Evidence from calls for service during COVID-19 [0.03%]
居家避疫与家庭暴力：来自COVID-19期间的求助电话证据
Emily Leslie,Riley Wilson
Emily Leslie
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an economic slowdown as more people practice social distancing and shelter at home. The increase in family isolation, unemployment, and economic stress has the potential to increase domestic violence. We doc...
Labor demand in the time of COVID-19: Evidence from vacancy postings and UI claims [0.03%]
新冠肺炎时期的劳动力需求：来自职位空缺和失业保险申请的证据
Eliza Forsythe,Lisa B Kahn,Fabian Lange et al.
Eliza Forsythe et al.
We use job vacancy data collected in real time by Burning Glass Technologies, as well as unemployment insurance (UI) initial claims and the more traditional Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment data to study the impact of COVID-19 on...
Jonathan I Dingel,Brent Neiman
Jonathan I Dingel
Evaluating the economic impact of "social distancing" measures taken to arrest the spread of COVID-19 raises a fundamental question about the modern economy: how many jobs can be performed at home? We classify the feasibility of working at ...
Decentralization and efficiency of subsidy targeting: Evidence from chiefs in rural Malawi [0.03%]
分散化与补贴瞄准效率：来自马拉维农村地区酋长的证据
Maria Pia Basurto,Pascaline Dupas,Jonathan Robinson
Maria Pia Basurto
Lower-income countries spend vast sums on subsidies. Beneficiaries are typically selected via either a proxy-means test (PMT) or through a decentralized identification process led by local leaders. A decentralized allocation may offer infor...
Which Early Withdrawal Penalty Attracts the Most Deposits to a Commitment Savings Account? [0.03%]
哪一种提前取款罚则最能吸引存款进入承诺储蓄账户？
John Beshears,James J Choi,Christopher Harris et al.
John Beshears et al.
Previous research has shown that some people voluntarily use commitment contracts that restrict their own choice sets. We study how people divide money between two accounts: a liquid account that permits unrestricted withdrawals and a commi...
Itzik Fadlon,Torben Heien Nielsen
Itzik Fadlon
The marginal gains from social income insurance programs are captured by the gap in the marginal utility of consumption across states of nature. To identify this gap in the context of the household, this paper offers a new labor-supply base...
James Poterba,Steven Venti,David A Wise
James Poterba
Inequality in wealth among elderly households, and in particular the prevalence of very low wealth holdings, can be an important consideration in the design of social insurance programs. This paper examines the incidence and determinants of...
Prescription Drug Use under Medicare Part D: A Linear Model of Nonlinear Budget Sets [0.03%]
医疗保险D部分下的处方药使用情况：非线性预算约束下的线性模型
Jason Abaluck,Jonathan Gruber,Ashley Swanson
Jason Abaluck
Medicare Part D enrollees face a complicated decision: they dynamically choose prescription drug consumption in each period given difficult-to-find prices and a non-linear budget set. We use Part D claims data to estimate a flexible model o...
The Effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions on Financial Wellbeing [0.03%]
平价医疗法案医疗补助扩展对财务福祉的影响分析
Luojia Hu,Robert Kaestner,Bhashkar Mazumder et al.
Luojia Hu et al.
We examine the effect of the Medicaid expansions under the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) on consumer financial outcomes using data from a major credit reporting agency for a large, national sample of adults. We emplo...